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Background check policies for apartment applicants may be illegal
“A policy or practice that denies housing to anyone with a prior arrest or any kind of criminal conviction cannot be justified,” according to...
Age of Aquarius, 2.0: smart drugs in the workplace
This scenario may not be hypothetical for long. The unauthorized use of prescription drugs such as the ADHD medications Adderall and Ritalin and the...
Market smarts
Good data lies at the heart of every successful operation, but data, in itself, is just the proverbial stack of lumber. Without an understanding,...
Americans are on edge
From the continuing ebb and flow of jobs, to growing threats of terror, to something as simple as water—there is barely a moment of...
The camel that had no hump
This especially irritates Rob Pressman, the principal of Burbank, Calif.-based TGP, Inc. Landscape Architecture, who believes that aesthetics do not have to be discarded...
You should go and love yourself
Property management software might be a lot like that. Without context, we all just keep repeating the same behavior, not really thinking about if...
Click. Click. Click.
The commercial banks that make most construction loans to apartment developers are beginning to be more careful. That’s because of worries about the many...
Not your father’s utility management program
Each grew up with, and eventually stepped in to run their family’s apartment business. Each took the baton and carried their multifamily enterprise into...
Haystack or a needle?
The event was opened by Reed, who also announced that his company and host of the event, NWP, had been acquired by Dallas, Texas-based,...
Supreme Court electrifies U.S. energy market
A consequential energy case that cuts to the heart of the delicate balance between state and federal regulation of the country’s electricity markets has...
Star bright, starlight
Today, the Washington, D.C. firm is largely accepted as the reigning online provider of commercial real estate (CRE) data and related services for every...
Tell me my lying eyes are wrong
The stock market continues to free fall, as do oil prices, even as the dollar strengthens against the whims of China. U.S. growth, as...
Balancing the new online economy and apartment operations
Many apartment owners and managers are adopting digital electronic locker systems and the software that operates them to address that predicament. Lori Torres, founder and...
Great Scott!
It also may have been planned perfectly that MRI Software, headquartered in Solon, Ohio, concluded its International Users Conference on October 21, 2015, a...
Love, actually
Fresh off the clipboards, the National Multihousing Council (NMHC)/Kingsley Associates 2015 Apartment Resident Preferences Survey is out. Findings were calculated from 120,000 responses across...
